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- The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining

Wed, 19 Jan 2022
1254
- Women of the Rothschild dynasty

Tue, 18 Jan 2022
1253
- Queen Victoria’s spy network

Mon, 17 Jan 2022
1252
- Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 16 Jan 2022
1251
- How the Beatles were in tune with 60s Britain

Sat, 15 Jan 2022
1250
- Shining new light on medieval Europe

Fri, 14 Jan 2022
1249
- A murder mystery in 19th-century Dublin

Wed, 12 Jan 2022
1248
- Trading and crusading in the Middle Ages

Tue, 11 Jan 2022
1247
- The Demerara slave uprising

Mon, 10 Jan 2022
1246
- The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 09 Jan 2022
1245
- Ancient Greek scientific thinking

Sat, 08 Jan 2022
1244
- Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide

Fri, 07 Jan 2022
1243
- Women who served in WW2

Wed, 05 Jan 2022
1242
- A forgotten witch hunt in New England

Tue, 04 Jan 2022
1241
- Goods & globalisation: merchants in Tudor & Stuart England

Mon, 03 Jan 2022
1240
- The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 02 Jan 2022
1239
- History’s greatest mysteries: what caused the medieval ‘dancing plague’?

Sat, 01 Jan 2022
1238
- History’s greatest mysteries: why did Mao’s chosen successor flee China?

Fri, 31 Dec 2021
1237
- History’s greatest mysteries: was the Trojan War fact or fiction?

Wed, 29 Dec 2021
1236
- History’s greatest mysteries: what happened to the Roman Ninth Legion?

Tue, 28 Dec 2021
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- History’s greatest mysteries: Agatha Christie disappears

Mon, 27 Dec 2021
1234
- The state of history in 2021

Sun, 26 Dec 2021
1233
- Christmas feasts: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity

Fri, 24 Dec 2021
1232
- Thomas Kendrick: MI6 spymaster who helped win WW2

Wed, 22 Dec 2021
1231
- Pearl Harbor episode 5: Chaos unleashed

Tue, 21 Dec 2021
1229
- The Stuart princess who could have deposed Charles I

Mon, 20 Dec 2021
1228
- Fascism: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 19 Dec 2021
1227
- Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end

Sat, 18 Dec 2021
1226
- Christmas feasts: Victorian merrymaking

Fri, 17 Dec 2021
1225
- Triumph against the odds: the 1821 Greek Revolution

Wed, 15 Dec 2021
1224
- Pearl Harbor episode 4: The day of the attack

Tue, 14 Dec 2021
1223
- England’s last witches

Mon, 13 Dec 2021
1222
- Hadrian’s Wall: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 12 Dec 2021
1221
- Animals in space: from Laika to jellyfish & tortoises

Sat, 11 Dec 2021
1220
- Christmas feasts: Georgian elegance

Fri, 10 Dec 2021
1219
- How US-Russian relations fractured in the 1990s

Wed, 08 Dec 2021
1218
- Pearl Harbor episode 3: Countdown to the raid

Tue, 07 Dec 2021
1217
- Pearl Harbor episode 2: America on the eve of war

Tue, 07 Dec 2021
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- Sex lives of medieval people

Mon, 06 Dec 2021
1215
- The Great Depression: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 05 Dec 2021
1214
- Searching for WW1’s fallen soldiers

Sat, 04 Dec 2021
1213
- Christmas feasts: Medieval & Tudor revelry

Fri, 03 Dec 2021
1212
- Pearl Harbor episode 1: A gathering storm in Japan

Wed, 01 Dec 2021
1211
- Colour: a human history

Tue, 30 Nov 2021
1210
- Stranger danger? Xenophobia’s unexpected history

Mon, 29 Nov 2021
1209
- The Irish famine: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 28 Nov 2021
1208
- How Shakespeare inspired terrorists

Sat, 27 Nov 2021
1207
- How the Greeks changed the world

Fri, 26 Nov 2021
1206
- What can churches tell us?

Wed, 24 Nov 2021
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- Sex work: a brief history

Tue, 23 Nov 2021

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